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[Bottom Feeder]

Man Finally Catches Mysterious Litterbug Who's Been Dumping His Trash Every Week​

The Dodo

For weeks now, Rroytje has been plagued by an ongoing mystery. Just about every time he’d haul his garbage bin to the curb outside his home in Melbourne, Australia, he’d later find its contents strewn across his driveway.

“Usually, I wake up in the morning with mess everywhere,” Rroytje wrote. Turns out, the mysterious litterbug targeting the bin was actually a majestic sulphur-crested cockatoo, native to the region.

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[Joe King]

Wow, that bird's awesome.

The dude needs to put a rock on top of the lid.
.....and maybe put a little bird food out to distract the bird away from his trash bin. Lol

 

[nickndfl]

I would say that is a clever bird, but it's eating garbage. The deer in the Florida Keys do the same thing.

 

[Casey Jones]

I would say that is a clever bird, but it's eating garbage. The deer in the Florida Keys do the same thing.

That's what they live on. They're scavangers. Probably, to their systems, the fresh food waste in trash bins, is a lot moar tasty (probably not healthier, for all the chemicals) than road kill or what they could get in the wild.

Those miniature Key deer are a trip. I was camping on Big Pine Key, 12 years ago...nice RV and camping center, had wi-fi all over the park. It was the Christmas holiday, and it would get dark early...I was on a picnic table using my laptop, total blackness (RV parking was the other side, and primitive camping sites weren't lit) and I hear a crunching noise. Someone coming up.

I flip on my LED headlight, and here's a deer, about the size of a medium lab, coming up to me. I didn't know if Lyme Disease or other ticks had made it down to the keys; I didn't want to deer to slash me (they use front hooves and are very good) but obviously he (with a nice rack, too) was looking for handouts. I had nothing - although they sold deer cookies in the office.

I was impressed, though, that a grazing wild animal that small would just so completely lose its fear of humans.

 

[Casey Jones]

Wow, that bird's awesome.

The dude needs to put a rock on top of the lid.
.....and maybe put a little bird food out to distract the bird away from his trash bin. Lol

Ever see them empty those cans? It's all automatic. The truck pulls up, two grappling arms latch onto it, and run it up a conveyor chain to the top of the truck. Maybe they'd not try with a rock on the lid. If they did, you'd have to be getting another rock each pickup day, because the rock would be gone with the garbage.

You can't tie down the lid with bungee cords for the same reason. They don't have time or manpower - it's one poor sod running the truck, and when he has to get out to adjust something, he's usually hopping mad. They run them on a tight scheduled route.